Reported Disk Space 10X Space Used

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Hi All I have a Iomega NAS "appliance" or whatever and
am having some problems with disk space. I have like 20GB
of actual data on the shared RAID, with a capacity of like
500GB, and Windows is reporting that 200GB of space is
being used. I have spoken to Iomega, and they can't
account for the space usage, even with the Persistent
Storage Manager. I have Veritas and Zone Alarm installed,
along with Ad-Aware and SpyBot. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance .... Johnny

P.S. >> A guy I talked to said we may have been hacked by a
UNIX PC, and Windows can't see UNIX files or something like
that. I have a Linux box at home if that would provide any
assistance. Thanks again .. Johnny

 

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On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 19:12:25 -0700, "Johnny Boy" <jbeavan@umddotedu> wrote:

>Hi All I have a Iomega NAS "appliance" or whatever and
>am having some problems with disk space. I have like 20GB
>of actual data on the shared RAID, with a capacity of like
>500GB, and Windows is reporting that 200GB of space is
>being used. I have spoken to Iomega, and they can't
>account for the space usage, even with the Persistent
>Storage Manager. I have Veritas and Zone Alarm installed,
>along with Ad-Aware and SpyBot. Any help would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance .... Johnny
>
>P.S. >> A guy I talked to said we may have been hacked by a
>UNIX PC, and Windows can't see UNIX files or something like
>that. I have a Linux box at home if that would provide any
>assistance. Thanks again .. Johnny

Is the file system FAT32?

Large allocation units will do this.


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

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NTFS.
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Is the file system FAT32?

Large allocation units will do this.


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

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"Johnny Boy" <jbeavan@umddotedu> wrote in message
news:010601c46dfe$ffbd18c0$3a01280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi All I have a Iomega NAS "appliance" or whatever and
> am having some problems with disk space. I have like 20GB
> of actual data on the shared RAID, with a capacity of like
> 500GB, and Windows is reporting that 200GB of space is
> being used. I have spoken to Iomega, and they can't
> account for the space usage, even with the Persistent
> Storage Manager. I have Veritas and Zone Alarm installed,
> along with Ad-Aware and SpyBot. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

MFT using lots of space? Shouldn't be anywhere near that much, but you
won't know until you find out. defrag -v is one way to determine this, I'm
sure there are other ways.

>
> Thanks in advance .... Johnny
>
> P.S. >> A guy I talked to said we may have been hacked by a
> UNIX PC, and Windows can't see UNIX files or something like
> that. I have a Linux box at home if that would provide any
> assistance. Thanks again .. Johnny

Backup your 20 GB of data. Delete and recreate your partition. Restore the
data. How much has the thing used now?

Phil
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